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NewsaHackO

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NewsaHackO··on How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer
The issue is stuff like job security and layoffs; it’s easy to not care about what position you have until someone is looking to fire 20% of non staff engineers and suddenly you are afraid of being on the chopping block.
NewsaHackO··on Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory
People have been making analogies like this since 2023, hardly worth a link to a random twitter thread.
NewsaHackO··on Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
Also, they seem to care about wasting electricity but doesn’t bat an eye of discarding a perfectly fine printer.
NewsaHackO··on Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
Yea, they are going to have to monitor how often similar writing pieces are being submitted, or limit the access to the checker somehow.
NewsaHackO··on Claude: System Prompts
That seems more like a conspiracy theory. I think the group of people who 1) view this website and 2) click on a thread about certain topics are a heavily conditioned (and therefore more homogenized) group; if you say something that is controversial/low quality, it is likely going to get downvoted by multiple people in that group.
NewsaHackO··on How Claude's text watermarking works
Do open "source" models have have this watermarking enabled? How do you know?
NewsaHackO··on Anthropic: Introducing The Conceptual Reasoning Index
It is so bizarre, honestly. It's almost like they are a public utility company. People are trying as hard as possible to hate them, but always stop short of simply canceling the service because they can't live without them. Seriously, I saw someone say that they were so disgusted with Anthropic that they were cutting down from having two Max subscriptions to just one.
NewsaHackO··on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
Well, I guess another plausible explanation is that usually "domain experts" are people that get paid for their expertise, and have a vested interest in saying that LLMs cannot replicate what they want people to pay them for.
NewsaHackO··on 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
Are talking about selling marked up water during a state of emergency? Don’t think that would apply here.
NewsaHackO··on Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Journalists have no shame when it comes to making clickbait headlines. Feel like an idiot for falling for it.
NewsaHackO··on Zed DeltaDB
Having keyboard shortcuts isn’t a valid reason for UI buttons to be unusable. If it should solely be accessed by a shortcut, then they should just remove the buttons altogether.
NewsaHackO··on Zed DeltaDB
>This is my #1 annoyance: clicking microscopic icons at the very bottom of the screen to switch views.

It’s crazy that is still an issue. I really tried to use Zed because I was trying to move away from VSCode and VSCodium did not have a featureful python lsp. I just couldn’t stand little things like that that. Also, the font was really blurry. VSCodium now has Pyfly which is decent, so I just switched back.

NewsaHackO··on Apple is getting this wrong
Yea that’s what strikes me as weird too. I had to look up at the web site bar to really confirm this was OpenAI and not some employee blog site. Particularly, the whole Asian last name bit was so shoehorned in to imply Apple is racist I guess? Not something I have seen in a statement from a company like OpenAI. Just weird energy. Also, that text exchange made Apple look like a fun place to work.
NewsaHackO··on Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
I wish I made that choice. I got to "Hopper used the email address adecentguyincornwall@gmail.com to set up the profile “AdmiroDoc” on eunuchmaker.com, a pay-per-view fetish website featuring videos of men and boys either maiming themselves or allowing others to mutilate them on camera. " then noped out
NewsaHackO··on GCC steering committee announces AI policy
Yeah, I'm also in this camp. Saying we are going to deny all AI-written code wholesale and then asking them to properly attribute AI-written code is just going to incentivize not quoting AI-written code. Another thing is that when they say "can answer questions about it," it's also non-barrier, because the person will just feed the questions into a LLM. Short of an in-person interview, I don't see how this is going to keep anyone but honest users of AI out of the code base. I guess it could also be used retrospectively as a basis to ban someone.
NewsaHackO··on Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels
The amount of free trial subscription slop SaaS software has really gotten out of control. The gall people have to attempt to sell a subscription to something like this is something else.
NewsaHackO··on Harddrive Is Probably Full
It is so wild that someone would let Claude index all of the files on their computers for such a bane request. We are really turning into the people on WALL·E
NewsaHackO··on Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models
You have to apply equal opportunity inflation. The worth of 30gb portable memory in 2005 is not the same as the worth of 30gb in 2026. During that time, when I was in school, I remember my dad getting antsy about lending me his 64mb flash drive for school presentation because he paid $60 for it.
NewsaHackO··on Recreating the math behind the first stealth aircraft
Are those spelling errors?
NewsaHackO··on The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin
No don't, sonarr is definitely worse if you have a unstructured media folder. I currently use it and its good, but I remember when first starting out with pile of files in semi random folders it being a mess to start up. Like some of the restrictions of the bulk importer made very little sense. Also, sonarr is tied to a single metadata provider which sometimes makes very unpopular decisions about the naming of series and episodes. When pluribus was initally released, they insisted on naming the series "plur1bus" even though no other source, imdb or even AppleTV used that as the official name. This broke auto downloading for the season.
NewsaHackO··on Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
> largely haven't used AI to program it.

That’s like saying you haven’t used cocaine often. And using the autocomplete that uses LLMs to write out entire functions from a signature is still using AI.

NewsaHackO··on Recreating the math behind the first stealth aircraft
Oldest trick in the book is to put human like errors to make it look human. The thing everyone forgets is that almost everyone does simple spellcheck or has it automatically show the spelling errors so it’s improbable that such spelling errors are organic (of course, omitting, or having a word autocorrect makes more sense)
NewsaHackO··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
>I know there's no absolute smoking gun here

Wow, so you can't even find circumferential evidence of circumferential evidence? I guess you can believe whatever you want, evidence be damned

NewsaHackO··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
People are now saying poor communication because the Bun creator was not able to see the future and didn’t immediately flag his draft rewrite as the next big thing when he started working on it.
NewsaHackO··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
Saying Bun's communication was an issue here is clutching pearls. There is no evidence that Bun ever acted in bad faith, Jared definitely seemed to initally think it was just a trial, until he realized that it was actually something feasible. He isn't clairvoyant; there is no way he would have known it was going to be successful when he initially made the post.
NewsaHackO··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
Did he say this opinion before the rewrite, or when he was taking tens of thousands of Bun's money per month?
NewsaHackO··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
I don't know, I feel as though Bun went about it much more maturely than zig at any point in the process, from the initial attempted zig compiler commit by the Bun team to the Zig dev team member response to the Bun Rust blog post. Also, I think that fallout over this whole event will definitely favor Bun versus Zig.
NewsaHackO··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
This is why people use AI so heavily. Because no matter how bad or ill formed a question is, it wo answer it the most "caring" way possible, and never berate you for it being a stupid question, common sense, etc (as long as it is about some forbidden topic of course)
NewsaHackO··on Regressive JPEGs
If i remember correctly, some other places of the internet (4chan) completely this sort of behavior because people use it to hide images of ...unsavory topics
NewsaHackO··on Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B
It's funny that you don't realize you are doing the same thing; you are giving the absolute change like the article is doing; you are just doing the change in the rate instead of the underlying quantity. A 4% change in my rate if the original rate is 4% would be a 100% rate rate change, which of course is substantial.
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